Amazing, just Amazing

The Investor's Business Daily today published an editorial that is so full of shit, that it has gone beyond stink. This editorial mentions such gems as the following in describing the obviously absurd state of medical care in the United Kingdom:

The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through rationing, and the health consequences thereof are legendary. The stories of people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror movie script.

The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the "quality adjusted life year."

and here's the real diamond:

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Obviously, the point to be made is that Stephen Hawking not only has a chance in the U.K., Mr. Hawking has lived in the U.K. his entire life, save for those times when he has been traveling outside the U.K.

The people who write this crap either don't know what the truth actually is, or they are so brought to orgasm by what they see as "the game of politics," that it doesn't really matter.

The sad truth of this whole matter is that there are more than a dozen people in the U.S. who will believe whatever Republicans tell them.